sculpture
- Museum number
- Am1978,15.349
- Description
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Sculpture; made of pottery; in the form of funeral scene; skeleton painted white lying on platform painted green, with red devil with yellow markings kneeling on either side; wall behind skeleton decorated with white head, white humans, white circles and unpainted cross; "CM" painted in white on bottom. Used in Day of the Dead Festival.
- Production date
- 1970s
- Dimensions
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Height: 25 centimetres
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Width: 31 centimetres
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Depth: 14.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- See Carmichael, Elizabeth and Sayer, Chloë. The Skeleton at the Feast, The Day of the Dead in Mexico. London: British Museum Press, 1991 Plate 4.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1977-1978, London, Horniman Museum
1991, London, Museum of Mankind, 'The Skeleton at the Feast: The Day of the Dead'
- Associated events
- Used at: Day of the Dead
- Acquisition date
- 1978
- Acquisition notes
- Objects collected during the 1970s by Chloë Sayer and Marcos Ortiz. They were exhibited in 1977-1978 at the Horniman Museum, and later acquired by the British Museum.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am1978,15.349
